PyLadies Canberra Community Meet & Greet

Do you want to connect with the Tech community in Canberra, have identified or presented as female ever in your life (or can bring someone who does) and are free on Sunday 9th March?

Maybe you're attempting to learn a new programming language? Take your first steps into the world of big data? Or just want to learn more about tech with other people who are in the same boat?

VENUE: Ground Floor, Hanna Neumann Building, Australian National University

Our goal is to foster a strong female tech community here in Canberra. We're realistic about the female tech experience being generally different from the majority experience and are here specifically to support this. We want to start a discussion around the challenges, interests, side-projects and exciting opportunities group members are facing in their careers and lives as they progress in their tech journeys. We'll facilitate a structured group discussion (see Lean Coffee, it's got unconference vibes). Don't worry if you don't know anyone yet, we're a friendly and welcoming bunch.

Kids/Families: we specifically want to include community members with family responsibilities so the event is child/carer friendly. You don't have to bring them, but if you do: we'll set up a space off to the side (in sight) where they're more than welcome to hang out. We're not providing supervision they're still in your care, but they are welcome!

Protecting the new/shy: we specifically want to protect those who are new/shy/junior and find that CoC guidelines are great for helping everyone learn and grow in to a robust, cohesive community. We're mostly a bit socially awkward and we expect everyone to be respectful and to be able to have healthy, mature conversations about the bounds we expect in the group. We stem from the Python community and use their fabulous CoC as a backstop: python.org/psf/conduct/

Male-humans: (bring your daughters/sisters/mothers/aunts/friends/etc!) our goal is to be inclusive and we understand that men may want to come. Male-humans are welcome so long as they bring at least one female-human-per-male-human so that we can be 100% sure the event will be at least 50% female ratio is preserved. It is very acceptable that this person is a child, as we advocate children being exposed to technical adult female role-models. Obviously we expect male attendees to be respectful of the goals of the group.